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New Orleans City Guide, 1938
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans
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Mardi Gras Indians
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The Dooky Chase Cookbook
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Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White
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4.19 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
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Zeitoun
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My New Orleans: Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers
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3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings
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My New Orleans: The Cookbook (Volume 1) (John Besh)
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
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Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath
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3.91 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
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Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II
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4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
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The Incomplete, Year-by-Year Selectively Quirky, Prime Facts Edition of the History of The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Managing Ignatius: The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and Life in New Orleans
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3.58 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Soul Kitchen (Rickey and G-Man, #4)
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3.98 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District
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4.17 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
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3.83 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm
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Why New Orleans Matters
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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
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4.22 avg rating — 5,308 ratings
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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
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3.61 avg rating — 4,912 ratings
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
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A Life in Jazz
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The Buster Holmes restaurant cookbook: New Orleans handmade cookin'
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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
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New Orleans: What Can't Be Lost: 88 Stories and Traditions from the Sacred City
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Uglesich's Restaurant Cookbook
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
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4.21 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans "Mafia" Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob
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1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
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New Orleans Noir
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3.77 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans
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3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
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Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900
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3.92 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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Letters from New Orleans
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Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper
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3.99 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
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4.21 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Afternoon story: A century of the New Orleans States-item
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The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Chasing the Devil's Tail (Storyville, #1)
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
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Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press
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The Axeman's Jazz (Skip Langdon, #2)
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Katrina: The Ruin And Recovery of New Orleans
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Unorganized Crime: New Orleans in the 1920s
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Murder In The Rue Ursulines (Chanse MacLeod, #4)
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Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
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New Orleans in the gilded age;: Politics and urban progress, 1880-1896
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Jazz Scrapbook: Bill Russell and Some Highly Musical Friends
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Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of New Orleans
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The New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The 1887 Census Office Report
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Policing the Southern City: New Orleans, 1805-1889
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The Commander's Palace: New Orleans Cookbook
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The Moviegoer
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3.64 avg rating — 30,807 ratings
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Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
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The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
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3.81 avg rating — 168 ratings
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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
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3.94 avg rating — 874 ratings
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Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
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3.72 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 226,628 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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The New Orleans of Possibilities
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New Orleans By Gaslight
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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
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3.83 avg rating — 3,726 ratings
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Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
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City of Refuge
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Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana
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Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere
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Rex - An Illustrated History of the School of Design
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The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
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New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History
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Bourbon Street: A History
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Crescent City Cooking: Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer's New Orleans: A Cookbook
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Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town: A Culinary History of New Orleans, the City Where Food Is Almost Everything
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3.83 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
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Talk That Music Talk
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My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal
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The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
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Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable
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Old Creole Days
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In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz
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The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans: Updated Edition
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Huey "Piano" Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues
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Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans
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3.37 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Walking with Legends: Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey
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The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back
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Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory
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We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
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4.02 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Katrina: After the Flood
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3.96 avg rating — 909 ratings
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An Airboat on the Streets of New Orleans: A Cajun Couple Lends a Hand After Hurricane Katrina Floods the City
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
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4.04 avg rating — 9,169 ratings
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Another Kind of Hurricane
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3.77 avg rating — 477 ratings
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
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3.38 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
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3.66 avg rating — 95 ratings
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